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Ortolan (ASR 5)



Call sign:
Nan - Item - King - Charlie

ex-AM-45
ex-Minesweeper No. 45

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down 9 July 1918 by the Staten Island Shipbuilding Co., Staten Island, NY; Launched 30 January 1919; Commissioned USS Ortolan, Minesweeper No. 45, 17 September 1919; Classified AM-45, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 3 May 1922 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Recommissioned, 11 July 1922; Reclassified as a Submarine Rescue Ship, ASR-5, 12 September 1929; Decommissioned 18 March 1947 at San Francisco, CA; Struck from the Navy Register 10 June 1947; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal and sold 20 August 1947 into merchantile service to Bay Cities Transportation Co. of San Francisco, CA. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,400 t.; Length 188' 7"; Beam 36' 8"; Draft 13' 2"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 91; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose mounts; Propulsion two 200psi Babcock and Wilcox saturated steam boilers, Harlan and Hollingsworth Corp. 1,400shp triple expansion vertical engine, one shaft.

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USS Ortolan (AM 45)
Ortolan 44k . Robert Hirst
Ortolan 112k c. 1925
Ortolan possibly at Mare Island. The sub is believed to be the S-35 (SS-140), or S-36 (SS-141)		 Ric Hedman TN(SS)
USS Ortolan (ASR 5)
Ortolan 91k U.S. Navy photo -
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